Priceline.com Offers Flexible Travellers Bargains For Holiday Travel

19th Dec 2001

priceline.com has published a Best Days For Best Deals holiday travel calendar, which is available online and can be accessed for free, to help travelers find those best-discount days.

In an easy-to-follow, color-coded format, the calendar shows the current availability of airline tickets for each day around the holiday period. The calendar also shows the days when airlines are most likely to sell their seats at the deepest discounts. Priceline.com customers can make offers for airline tickets at whatever price or discount they choose. Priceline.com then tries to find an airline willing to accept that offer, and customers usually get their answers in 15 minutes or less.

Red days on the calendar are the peak travel days, where ticket availability is tightest and prices are likely to be highest. On yellow-coded days, customers can expect average availability and nominal discounts. For the maximum travel savings, look for the airplane-in-a-star logo - those are the days when ticket availability is high and airlines are most willing to accept priceline.com customer purchase offers at the deepest discounts, which can be up to 40 percent or more below retail.

According to priceline.com`s Best Days For Best Deals calendar, for priceline.com customers looking to buy their tickets this week:

- You have the maximum chance of getting a ticket at the biggest discount if you travel on December 19 or January 9.

- You still have an average chance of getting your price if you travel on these days: December 23, 24, 25, 28 & 30. January 3, 4, 6 & 8.

- Peak travel days are: December 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29 & 31. January 1, 2, 5 & 7.
Priceline.com offers Name Your Own Price(sm) services for leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars. Priceline.com`s travel supplier partners include 34 major brand airlines in the US and abroad, including the top 8 major airlines in the US; over 7,000 hotel properties in the US, Europe, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean; and the top 5 major brand rental car companies. Priceline.com customers make their own purchase offers and typically receive replies in 15 minutes or less.

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About Priceline.com

Priceline.com is the Name Your Own Price(sm) Internet service that offers products for sale in four categories: a travel service that offers leisure airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars; a personal finance service that offers home mortgages, refinancing and home equity loans through an independent licensee; an automotive service that offers new cars; and a telecommunications service that offers long distance calling services. Priceline.com licenses its business model to independent licensees, including pricelinemortgage and certain international licensees. In these arrangements, priceline.com generally receives royalties for licensing its intellectual property. Priceline.com also holds securities carrying the right to purchase a significant equity stake in the licensees under certain conditions. Unless those rights are exercised, the results of licensee operations will not be included in priceline.com`s financial statements.